The meta-evaluation team

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THE ME TA -EV ALUATION TEA M

José Manuel Fresno, Coordinator, (ES). Founder and Director of Fresno t he

right link, specialised in European affairs, Third sector, social policy, financing,

development and strategic planning; Advisor to several institutions and NGOs, UN

agencies and the World Bank; Former Director of Fundación Luis Vives and

Promoter and Director of Fundación Secretariado Gitano; Former Chair of the

Spanish Council for the promotion of equal treatment and non-discrimination of

people on the ground of ethnic and racial origin.

Jarmila Lajkov (SK). Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture leading

Minority Policy in Slovakia programme, including Slovakia’s first university

affirmative action programme for Romani students at the University of Economics

in Bratislava. Author of numerous academic and public policy studies.

Judit Szira (HU). Former Director of the Roma Education Fund. Previously

Director of the Public Education Development Programme at the Soros Foundation

in Budapest, and later chief advisor to the Roma Commissioner in the Ministry of

Education of Hungary; Author of numerous publications on equity issues, active

citizenship and social cohesion.

Slvka Makov (SK). Executive Director of the ETP Slovakia – Centre for

Sustainable Development (ETP) since 2002 managing and overseeing dozens of

programmes and projects for Roma communities in Slovakia.

Mirjam Karoly (AT). International consultant on human rights. Member of the

Austrian Ethnic Council for Roma and Sinti and member of the Austrian Delegation

to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; Board member of the

Romano Centro, Vienna and the European Roma Rights Centre, Budapest; Former

Chief of the OSCE Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI) at the Office for

Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); Former Senior Communities

Adviser at the OSCE Field Mission in Kosovo.

Monica Rossi (IT). Adviser to the municipality of Rome for the implementation of

a Roma Inclusion plan; Author of numerous academic papers and publications on

the situation of Roma and migrants in Italy; consultant in several EC funded

projects and evaluator for DG EAC and REGIO, as well as for the Council of Europe.

Acknowledgments

We express our gratitude to the European Commission for providing the

opportunity to conduct this meta-evaluation and in particular its Joint Research

Centre and its Directorate General for Justice and Consumers for their steering in

this task. The report benefited greatly from the methodological support provided

by Zsuzsa Blasko (JRC). A special word of thanks goes to Skye Bain (Fresno the

right link) for collecting our contributions and integrating them into this report.